AIPG-TX

The Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists (TBPG) adopts an amendment to 22 TAC §851.21 to establish guidelines for applicants requesting to sit for a licensing examination. Adopted changes add language to provide that an applicant who does not fully meet the education requirement for licensure may sit for a licensing examination as long as the applicant has submitted certain documents and has acknowledged that the applicant does not meet the education requirement. The applicant will then need to resolve the education deficit once the applicant has received passing scores on the licensing examination in order to obtain a Professional Geoscientist license.

Resolving the education deficit may include obtaining a waiver of the education requirement, obtaining a substitution of experience for education, or by the Board’s determination that the education requirement was met with “equivalent education,” as provided by §1002.255(a)(2)(B). An applicant may choose to sit for the examination knowing that the education deficit will not be reviewed by the Board until after the applicant has passed the required examination(s) for licensure, and that the resolution the applicant presents may not be approved.  For more information go to (more).

Henry M. Wise, P.G., C.P.G.